What's the difference between crontab and cronjob?

Question

This question may sound incredibly stupid, but if I don't ask I'll never know...

All the tasks setting I do is always by using "crontab". I heard the term "cronjob" somewhere. Is it another tool or just a name for something in "crontab"?

Answer 1

A cronjob is just a single entry in a crontab, that's all.

Answer 2

Try playing in the cron sandbox - lets you try out combinations of crontab timing values and gives you a list of when the job would run. www.dataphyx.com

Answer 3

crontab is the actual command line entry that is used to kick off a cron job (not cronjob).

to create a cron job, do the following

 crontab -e

And then fill in the cron syntax for the scripts/programs you want to run at a specific "cron'ed" interval.

Answer 4

The cronjob is what you put into your crontab.